WEBSITE SHOWS REGION 3 ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND THEIR AIR QUALITY STATUS

EPA’s Air Protection Division is presenting the region’s air quality data in an innovative way.  Its public web site database now enables users of Google Earth mapping software to view an interactive map of electric utilities in region 3. After downloading google.earth software at http://earth.google.com and fulfilling other conditions, the EPA Google Earth file data is provided at http://www.epa.gov/reg3artd/divinfo/recentadditions.htm#egu-data .

When opened, each electric utility is represented as a point on a map which, when clicked, reveals a chart showing the selected facility’s annual emissions of six major air pollutants.

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NATIONAL EMISSIONS INVENTORY SYSTEM TO BE UPGRADED

A new National Emissions Inventory System (NEIS) will be replacing the current version in  October.  The system allows states to report their most commonly found pollutants (criteria pollutants), as well as the hazardous air pollutant emissions from all sources in their states. Data from the NEI are used for air dispersion modeling, regional strategy development, setting regulation, air toxics risk assessment, and tracking trends in emissions over time. For more information, go to http://www.epa.gov/ttnchie1/net/neiwhatis.html